Wisconsin Institute for Discovery

Steven Wright, a Wisconsin Institute for Discovery Fellow and Computer Science professor, has been nominated for a Hilldale Professorship for his pioneering work in continuous optimization and ma...

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The Marie Christine Kohler Fellows @ WID program, hosted by the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery at UW–Madison, is currently open for application submissions. This unique fellowship fosters in...

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The Capstone Teaching Award recognizes dissertators at the end of their graduate program with an outstanding teaching record over the course of their UW–Madison tenure, WID is proud to have our...

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Emile Gluck-Thaler joined the UW–Madison faculty in September 2023 as an assistant professor in the Department of Plant Pathology.

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WID Annual Report 2023 now available!

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Discovery Fellow, Stephen Wright was cited for theory and design of optimization algorithms and their application in signal processing and machine learning. Inauguration in to the National Academ...

https://www.cs.wisc.edu/2024/02/14/steve-wright-elected-to-prestigious-national-academy-of-engineering/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=wright-named-to-2024-class-of-national-academy-of-engineering

Pours and Prose is an exclusive, interactive wine tasting and appreciation event with WID Writer in Residence Michelle Wildgen. This event will be on February 23, 2024 from 5:00 - 7:00 PM and hel...

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Schwab joined the lab of John Yin, a professor of chemical and biological engineering at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery. That decision led Schwab to a three-year research career that has c...

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From the Inverse: Krishanu Saha, a bioengineer at the University of Wisconsin–Madison whose lab is working on gene therapies for treating blindness, says the precision allowed by CRISPR-Cas9’...

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Technology developed at the University of Wisconsin–Madison to grow “rosettes” of brain and spinal tissue gives scientists new ways to study the growing human brain, including a recent stud...

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Two Northeast Wisconsin Technical College (NWTC) students made a groundbreaking discovery of a new antibiotic in the soil at Pamperin Park in Howard, WI. This research is part of the Tiny Earth p...

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Students from areas across the state and nation will present their findings at the Tiny Earth in Titletown research symposium in the Lambeau Field Atrium on Monday, December 11, 2023. The event w...

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Meet our Gold Sponsor at the Symposium Expo

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Division of the Arts Director Chris Walker helms this year’s installment of the popular “Big Ideas for Busy People” event “Am AI Art Too? – How AI is Transforming the Creative Process.�...

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CaSP is bringing awareness a hardworking microbe Lactococcus lactis, which is the bacterium used to make cheese. Join policymakers, scientists, dairy, and industry leaders for a night showcasing ...

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Annual Wisconsin Science Festival returns Oct. 16-22 with new theme

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The Wisconsin Institute for Discovery hosted the “Celebrating Latinx voices in STEM” symposium in collaboration with the University of Wisconsin Inclusion in Science & Engineering Leadership ...

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He has earned the 2023 INFORMS Computing Society Prize for a series of papers at the intersection of operations research and computer science.

https://engineering.wisc.edu/blog/del-pia-adds-another-informs-honor/#:~:text=Alberto%20Del%20Pia%2C%20an%20associate,operations%20research%20and%20computer%20science.%23utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=del-pia-adds-another-informs-honor

Katherine P. Meuller, PhD and Nicole J. Piscopo win with “Production and characterization of virus-free, CRISPR-CAR T cells capable of inducing solid tumor regression”

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at UW-Madison

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